Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

Petty theft is usually a misdemeanor in California, so why would misdemeanors such as petty theft are not supposed to show up on a background check performed by such a company? That does not make a lot of sense to me. Maybe the clerk was talking about something else. Or maybe you're saying your petty theft was charged as an infraction because the value of the property taken was $50 or less and you had no other theft conviction, see Calif. Penal Code section 490.1(a). If that was the case, then yes, an attorney could be retained to find out why the background check company's database has your conviction shows up erroneously as a misdemeanor.

Larry L. Doan, Esq.

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